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To: Conservatrix
I have Amish ancestry on my mother's side and live among the Amish,as well as Mennonites and Dunkard Brethren today in central Pennsylvania.

I was unaware the Dunkards still existed. The only reference I knew about them was their church along Antietam Creek in Maryland, which was a landmark during the Battle of Sharpsburg in 1862.

Thanks for the indirect update! :-)

31 posted on 06/11/2005 6:00:08 PM PDT by Bombardier (Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Reenact, and stamp out farbiness!)
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To: Bombardier

Oh yes, the Dunkard Brethren still exist. My children go to a Dunkard Brethren school.
They basically dress like the conservative Mennonites except for some of the really plainer ones who wear a cape apparatus over their cape dress, and tight long sleeves in all weather. The baptize by "dunking", or immersion, in contrast to the Mennos and Amish who, like Catholics, sprinkle water on the head (but NOT on babies!!!)

One of my ancestors was Daniel Cripe, a Dunkard Brethren minster in Indiana.


43 posted on 06/11/2005 8:16:18 PM PDT by Conservatrix ("He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.")
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